| Cuba is an island that has many places to | | | | officially settled. |
| explore during your holidays and thousands of | | | | |
| marvels to see and to discover. One of this | | | | This impressive step that is 18 kilometers |
| wonders is the Bacunayagua Bridge, built in | | | | away to the west of the city of Matanzas and |
| the borders of Havana Province and Matanzas. | | | | it establishes the territorial limit with the |
| | | | county of Havana. To the north of the |
| Matanzas had the opportunity to inaugurate in | | | | bridge, the immense sea is sighted; the |
| the first year of the Revolution the longest | | | | channel and the outlet of what should be the |
| and highest bridge in Cuba until that moment. | | | | bed of a mighty river in a remote time, and |
| Its construction is historically a crisscross | | | | to the south, the extensive and exuberant |
| with the Via Blanca (the highway that | | | | Valley of YumurÃ. |
| connects Havana City and Varadero), begun by | | | | |
| Carlos PrÃo Socarrás´ government, | | | | The importance of that crossing for the Via |
| with the purpose of shortening the distance | | | | Blanca resides in that is the nearest and |
| between Matanzas and Havana. A total of 41 | | | | direct connection, for the beautiful |
| columns sustains the bridge of Bacunayagua, | | | | landscape of the Cuban north coast, between |
| those that were in its moment the most | | | | the Tunnel of the capital of the country and |
| slender in the world made of concrete. | | | | the City Spa of Varadero. |
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| In 1957 the works of construction of the | | | | The beauty of the environment of Bacunayagua, |
| bridge began, classified during that time as | | | | favored by the execution of that advanced |
| a colossal work, not only for its extension | | | | project, alternates with multitude of |
| but for the height on an immense cliff. Its | | | | headlands, hillsides and mangroves, natural |
| columns possess a pile of 22.50 meters each | | | | refuge of great ornithological importance |
| one, with a width of a meter for 1.60 meters, | | | | where 74 species of birds cohabit with 16 of |
| and some reach the 42 meters high. | | | | reptiles and eight of amphibians. In the |
| | | | ecosystem of swamp of this area vegetable |
| On its bolsters there are 6 beams that weigh | | | | formations appear as the heath coastal |
| each one 47 tons, and that they were fused in | | | | xeroformo and the forest semideciduo, besides |
| the same place the bridge was being built. In | | | | a rich and varied fauna with high percent of |
| total the bridge has a height 103 meters, | | | | endemism. |
| with a longitude 314 meters and a width of | | | | |
| 17. On September26, 1959, Fidel Castro Ruz | | | | The magnitude and splendid image of the place |
| and Celia Sanchez inspected the works, the | | | | can be appreciated perfectly from the |
| crossing for the splendid bridge constituted | | | | Mirador, located in an elevation to the end |
| the moment in that the road was inaugurated; | | | | west of the wonderful work. This is a unique |
| although it did not go up to October of that | | | | invitation you must take during your holidays |
| year, when the opening of the paths for the | | | | in the island. |
| communication between Havana and Matanzas was | | | | |